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410 remedy for toothache and aphthae. The whole plant, rubbed up with butter, is applied to reduce ©edematous tumors. A preparation is made from the ashes of the burnt plant to remove dandruff from the hair. The leaves are applied to abscesses ; and an oil is obtained from the root which is used to anoint the head in erysipelas (Ainslie and Rheede).

Syn.:—I. prostrata, Willd., Roxb, 583. Vern. : — The seeds — Wekaria (Bomb.).

Habitat : — From the Himalayas throughout India. Use : — The seeds are prescribed along with other mucilaginous drugs as a restorative (Dymock).

Vern : — Kuttukkarchammathi (Tarn.).

Habitat : — The plains of Sind and the upper Gangetic basin.

A shrub, reaching 4-6ft., with copious woody branches which, along with the sub-coriaceous leaves, are argento-canescent. Leaflets 3-5, alternate, firm, oblanceolate oblong, ½-1 in. long, sometimes solitary on the branches ; petiole short, but distinct. Racemes short-peduncled, 20-50-flowered, reaching 3-4 in. long. Calyx silvery 1/24 in.; teeth lanceolate, cuspidate, as long as the tube. Corolla red, 3-4-times the Calyx, thinly silvery externally. Pod ½-¾ in. long, glaucous, distinctly torulose, 6-8-seeded, recurved.

Parts used : — The root and stem.

Uses : — It is considered an antidote to poisons of all kinds. The root boiled in milk is used as a purgative, and a decoction of the stem as a gargle in mercurial salivation (Watt.)

Sans. : — Nila.

Vern. :— Nil (H. B.) ; Averi (Tam.) ; Ameri (Malay.) ; Neelie (Tel.); Nil guli (Bomb.); Jil, nil (Sind.).

Eng. : — Common indigo.

Habitat :— Cultivated throughout India, for Indigo. This is the universally cultivated Indigo.